In a week were Obama represented not only change, but also wisdom, this project seemed quite appropriate.

The Wisdom project is a cooperation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, creating a record of a multicultural group of people who have all made their mark in the world. Voices, words and images are brought together in this inspiring book by Andrew Zuckerman.

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And it feels good to stand of the shoulders of these giants: Chinua Acheb, Richard Adams, Madeleine Albright, Buzz Aldrin, David Amram, Alan Arkin, Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Dick Bruna, Zbegniew Brzezinski, Chuck Close, Billy Connolly, Bryce Courtenay, Terence Conran, Dame Judi Dench, Clint Eastwood, Dr. Garret FitzGerald, Malcolm Fraser, Frank Gehry, Jane Goodall, Nadine Gordimer, Vaclav Havel, Denis Healy, John Hume, Edward M. Kennedy, Billie Jean King, Henry Kissinger, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Little, Esther Mahlangu, Kurt Masur, Willie Nelson, Nick Nolte, Michael Parkinson, Jacques Pepin, Rosamunde Pilcher, Mary Quant, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Robert Redford, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Rogers, Ravi Shankar, Graham Nash, Wole Soyinka, Helen Suzman, Desmond Tutu, Lella Vignelli, Massimo Vignelli, Bill Withers, Andrew Wyeth and Nelson Mandela.

Thanks for the tip, Miguel. This one slipped me. Besides, it’s a great Christmas present.

This October 29th, the new book Age Of Conversation 2 is released, a unique collaboration with bloggers from 29 US States and from 14 other nations from Australia to the Ukraine.

Book cover by David Armano

I am fortunate of being part of this conversation as a co-author, doing my best to promote this initiative (expect a podcast next week), as proceeds of the book, available in hardcover, softcover an a downloadable e-book, will be donated to Variety, the international children’s charity.

Each author contributed with one essay, with mine entitled “A new brand of creative: Things fall apart”. To know more about AOC2, you can check out the site at The Age Of Conversation.

If you appreciate my writings or any of the other authors, you can buy AOC2 at Lulu.com.

While finish my article about a “New Brand Of Creative” for the second edition of The Age Of Conversation book, i got to know an AdmCom initiative meant to encourage people to reinvent themselves every day and stimulate their creativity.

The print project has 366 illustrated business cards of creative professions, all of them addressed to the person who receives the box. Besides the creative box, you can browse to yearofcreativity.com and customize your own business card or search for the ideal creative profession.

There are some great cards to kick start 2008 as the year of creativity !

Thibault Imbert is a System Engineer at Adobe France, with several years developing in the Flash platform with a personal playground at ByteArray.org, and side projects at WiiFlash or AlivePDF.

Last year, he wrote a book on Actionscript 3, and just when all was set to publish, the whole process went void(0). So what’s a writer to do? Well, of course, in the best spirit of Flash community: let’s opensource-it !

Thibault has now released the full Actionscript book, “Pratique d’ActionScript 3″, in PDF for download. FREE. Not as in beer, but it gets close.
Be a good sport and remind to hit that Paypal button. I donated a cheap 5€, the least i could do considering all the hard work Thibault had. And it’s a fine way to refresh my French skills.